Hidden stats

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Stats that are as important as the default ones but are hidden for gameplay reasons.

The exact values aren't usually shown to the player, but their global effects on the character are displayed when needed (Thirsty, Tired, etc).

Hunger

Default value: 0 | Min value: -- | Max value: 6000

Display

Hunger < -60	Engorged
Hunger < -20	Sated
Hunger < 0	Full
Hunger > 40	Hungry
Hunger > 80	Very hungry
Hunger > 300	Famished
Hunger > 1400	Near starving
Hunger > 2800	Starving!

How does it increase? (Not a complete list)

• Every 5 minutes (50 turns) it will increase by one point. You will need around 288 points of nutrition every day.
• A character with a Metabolic Interchange bionic and hunger below 100 will increase hunger by 2 each 5 turns.
• A character with the chemical imbalance trait has a small chance each turn of becoming full for a slow amount ("You suddenly suddenly feel a little full.") or hungry ("You suddenly feel hungry.").
• Eating food or drinking liquids that increase your hunger.
• Vomiting will increase it by a random value depending on your hunger (the more hungry, the smaller the increase)

How does it decrease?

• Eating food or drinking liquids that nourish you
• Characters with the leaves mutation have a chance of reducing hunger by one point when in sunlight
• Characters with the Expanded Digestive System bionic can reduce hunger even further when eating

Effects

Hunger levels above 100 will impact your speed negatively.

Eating beyond Full level can make you vomit, unless you have the gourmand trait.

You will stop eating automatically when your hunger level is below -20 (-60 for characters with gourmand trait) ("You can't finish it all!").

If you don't reduce your hunger regularly you can eventually die:

• Hunger 3000: You'll be warned ("You haven't eaten in over a week!")
• Hunger 4000: You'll be warned ("You are STARVING!")
• Hunger 5000: You'll be warned ("Food...")
• Hunger 6000: You die ("You have starved to death.")

Thirst

Default value: 0 | Min value: -- | Max value: 1200

Display

Thirst < -60	Turgid
Thirst < -20	Hydrated
Thirst < 0	Slaked
Thirst > 40	Thirsty
Thirst > 80	Very thirsty
Thirst > 240	Dehydrated
Thirst > 520	Parched

How does it increase? (Not a complete list)

• Every 5 minutes (50 turns) it will increase by one point.
• A character with the chemical imbalance trait has a small chance each turn of becoming a little thirstier ("You suddenly feel thirsty.").
• Eating food or drinking liquids that increase your thirst.
• Vomiting will increase it a random value depending on your thirst (the greater the thirst, the smaller the increase)
• Every 300 turns when having the flu
• When your body temperature is too high

How does it decrease?

• Eating food or drinking liquids that quench you.

Effects

Thirst levels of Thirsty and above will impact your speed negatively.

You will stop drinking automatically when your thirst level is below -20 (-60 for characters with gourmand trait) ("You can't finish it all!").

If you don't reduce your thirst regularly you can eventually die:

• Thirst 600: You'll be warned ("You haven't had anything to drink in 2 days!")
• Thirst 800: You'll be warned ("You are THIRSTY!")
• Thirst 1000: You'll be warned ("4 days... no water..")
• Thirst 1200: You die ("You have died of dehydration.")

Food in stomach

Default value: 0

How does it increase?

• Consuming food adds its nutrition value to food in stomach

How does it decrease?

• Every 5 minutes decreases by 20% or 10 points, whichever is more (unless it's less than 10, then it's zeroed)
• Vomiting brings it back to zero

Effects

• When vomiting, entire value of food in stomach is added to hunger

There's also a second variable - water in stomach. It works the same way but for thirst. Vomiting causes both to get added to respective values and zeroed.

Vitamins

In 0.D (Danny) there are now vitamin levels in food. And vitamin levels in players.

Stamina

This part contains information that applies to 0.D (Danny).

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In 0.D (Danny) there is a stamina level. You slowly regain it over time, and it reduces when you do straining things, like fight, or run (via the " ), or anything else that makes you get out of breath. If you have low stamina, some actions take longer to accomplish. There are various ways to increase or decrease your maximum stamina, such as the Languorous and Indefatigable traits. Other mutations such as extreme metabolism increase the rate at which you regain stamina.

Carrying over your weight limit also causes stamina loss.

Stamina recovers slower the more mouth encumbrance you have.

This part contains information that applies to 0.E (Ellison).

What is Stamina?

Stamina measures momentary exhaustion from performing strenuous tasks, like running or fighting. It represents loss of breath due to repetitively performing intense, oxygen demanding actions and physical exertion.

Stamina pool

• The stamina pool has 10,000 points; it's one of the hidden stats displayed in game by a set of color-coded depleting bars.
• The stamina pool is affected by traits/mutations: Languorous (-25%), Indefatigable (+25%) and Hyperactive (+40%).

Stamina regeneration

• Stamina regenerates by itself, every turn, unless you have the winded effect.
• Base stamina regeneration is 20 per turn, adjusted by bonuses.
• Expected base time of full recovery is 8.5 minutes.
• Regeneration takes place even on turns when stamina is burned, but some burn mechanics compensate for that.
• Base regeneration is reduced by 1/10 of mouth encumbrance-ergo, you don't want to wear clothing or equipment with high mouth encumbrance when running or fighting.
• Base regeneration is buffed by stimulants and debuffed by depressants.
• Active Oxygenator bionic buffs base regeneration by a factor of 5, at a cost of high power consumption.
• Stamina regeneration ratio is affected by traits/mutations: Fast Metabolism (+10%), Very Fast Metabolism (+30%), Extreme Metabolism (+50%)

Stamina burn

You burn stamina when performing the following actions and activities:

• walking (net positive balance, base stamina burn rate for walking is 15 per 100 moves, so it's possible to regenerate stamina while walking but not as fast as standing in place),
• running (walking burn x7) ,
• melee combat, calculations includes:
  • weapon's weight (malus) divided by strength (bonus), so strength reduces stamina cost for melee attack with heavier weapons,
  • melee skill (bonus),
  • both arms encumbrance (malus),
  • Deft trait (bonus, only when you stumble with attack),
  • minimum burn of 50,
• firing bows (When stamina is low, bow reloading time raises.),
• pulping corpses,
• smashing things,
• using muscle powered vehicles (see below),
• breaking sticks,
• heavy harmful coughing.

• Movement related stamina burn scales up with the depletion of stamina, so at low stamina the burn rate gets higher. Might make walking net negative balance (burn > regen).
• You don't burn stamina when riding an animal.

Stamina in vehicles

In muscle powered vehicles, you are the engine. You will burn stamina according to the "engine" load, i.e. effort you put into pushing the vehicle forward. Load depends on many factors, including speed, drag, efficiency of particular muscle engine etc. All you need to know is that the more you strain, the more you burn. Engine load spikes when you build up your speed, and then sets on a certain level to upkeep that speed. If you keep low speed in relation to that vehicle's max, you will burn much less. If you push it to the max, you will burn your stamina in no time. Some vehicles, like bicycles are more forgiving, and allow net positive stamina balance (regeneration > burn) at low speeds. Other, like kayaks and row boats, need lot of rowing power to move and will burn lot of stamina even at low speeds. Remember that overall weight of the vehicle also matters, including things you keep in the trunk/basket/hull.

• Active Joint Servo bionic significantly reduces stamina burn when using muscle powered vehicles, at the cost of bionic power, but does not affect the speed. It does not affect stamina burn rates while walking and running, but buffs the speed.

When you run out of stamina

• you stop running (if running),
• you get winded effect with certain debuffs.

Miscellaneous interactions

• Both walk and run speed drop to half their maximums as stamina approaches 0.
• Characters attack and throwing speed gets incrementally slower (up to x2 base move cost + encumbrance) when stamina drops below 25% and goes towards 0%. You are out of breath to attack at peak performance.
• Long actions that burn stamina will auto-pause you when you get low on stamina, and make you wait to regain some of it. You will lose some time on auto-waiting, but will have some stamina reserves in case of need.
• You can wait until you catch your breath in the wait menu.
• Military grade stimulants may help you instantly regain stamina and apply extra regeneration during their effects.
• Active Joint Torsion Ratchet bionic significantly increases stamina burn rate when walking and running, producing bionic power in return.
• Chilly/Cold/Freezing as well as Warm/Hot/Scorching effects may apply stamina loss
• Adrenaline Rush will grant extra stamina regeneration while Adrenaline Comedown will reduce stamina regeneration. Also works with its fungal analog.

For more details see Stamina.

Fatigue

Default value: 0 | Min value: -- | Max value: 1000

Display

Fatigue > 191	Tired
Fatigue > 383	Dead tired
Fatigue > 575	Exhausted

How does it increase? (Not a complete list)

• Every 5 minutes (50 turns) it will increase by one point. Various traits and mutations can affect this.
• A character with the chemical imbalance trait has a small chance each turn of becoming fatigued for a low amount ("You feel fatigued all of a sudden.").
• Every 50 turns when having a common cold
• Occasionally when suffering a nicotine craving.

How does it decrease?

• By sleeping $.
• By consuming stimulants

Effects

Your character will sleep on their own if you don't make them sleep regularly:

• Fatigue >= 192: You'll be warned every 50 turns ("You're feeling tired. Press '$' to lie down for sleep.") and will be prompted if in the middle of an activity ("You're feeling tired.")
• Fatigue > 383, (Dead tired and above): You'll take stat penalties as a "disease", with encouragement to sleep.
• Fatigue > 575 (Exhaustedand above): You'll randomly microsleep. These won't markedly help your fatigue but can be dangerous in combat or driving situations.
• Fatigue 600: You'll be warned every 10 turns ("You haven't slept in 2 days!")
• Fatigue 800: You'll be warned ("Anywhere would be a good place to sleep...")
• Fatigue 1000: Your character will sleep on their own. Fatigue will be reduced by 10 ("Survivor sleep now.")

Default value: 0

Scent

Default value: 500 | Min value: -- | Max value: --

Characters with the smelly trait will default to 800, and to 1200 with the very smelly mutation.

It will always try to normalize itself to the default level.

Scent always surrounds the player's character, and will leave a trail when he moves. Without the presence of the player, the scent eventually disappears.

The scent vision bionic will allow you to visualize your scent.

How does it decrease?

• Closed doors and windows will reduce the scent leaked outside
• Taping windows will reduce the scent leaked outside even more
• Smoke (normal one, tear gas, toxic gas...) eliminates all the scent close to it, so use that to your advantage.
• Rain reduces scent by one point per turn
• The Olfactory Mask bionic can reduce your scent considerably
• Certain mutations can effectively reduce or eliminate your scent, as you no longer smell like prey

Effects

Scent allows any creature able to smell to track player characters (check the creatures with the SMELLS flag in the enemies page).

Health

Default value: 0 | Min value: -- | Max value: --

How does it increase? (Not a complete list)

• Taking the flu shot
• By regularly consuming vitamins (by far most significant source of health)
• By eating healthy food and "healthy" meds (Non-drowsy cough syrup and Cough syrup)
• Slowly builds up to 0 if negative
• Certain mutations can boost health (for example, plant-like character standing barefoot on soil)

How does it decrease?

• By doing drugs, drinking alcohol, consuming junk food (especially sugary or salty) - if it's unhealthy in real life, it probably also is in DDA
• Slowly decreases to 0 if positive
• Certain mutations, bionics (especially leaky bionic), traits and diseases (parasites) can drastically lower health in the long term

Effects

• Makes you cough heavily (4 sound), gives you itchy veins and body aches.
• Protects against common diseases
• Affects regeneration during sleep - doubles at 100, completely negates at -100 (for a character with no regeneration-related traits and mutations).
• Prevents bite wounds from turning into infected wounds
• Particularly strong effects (some addictions) can directly lower health directly, bypassing the usual mechanic (see below)

Inner mechanics

Internally health is handled as two different variables: health and health modifier. Most effects change the modifier, which is capped at -200 and 200. Modifier slowly, semi-randomly influences actual health, always one point up or down, weighted towards equalizing health and modifier. Each time this change triggers modifier is multiplied by 3/4.

The actual health value is used for effects of health. Modifier doesn't directly influence any value other than health.

As a result, regularly consuming vitamins in small quantities (1 per ~14 hours) will work much better than med binges and occasional drug abuse will only result in serious health problems if it causes harmful addiction. Effects of bad health might not be noticeable until it is too late, when bad health stops all natural regeneration. Recovering from -100 health to 0 can easily take 4 weeks.

After sleeping you get an incharacter reference to your health value, it contains a hint on how bad or good you are feeling. Using the Self-Aware mutation you can see your current health level. Using the [ mutations menu.

Moves

Default value: 100 | Min value: 25 | Max value: --

Moves, or move points, or movement points, determine the amount of actions you or any creature can perform in a turn (so, in six seconds).

Speed determines how many move points you start with each turn.

Base move cost is the final value where both speed and any possible modifier, be it positive or negative, is applied (such as traits, encumbrance, stim level, queued actions, etc).

Base move cost = Speed + Move modifiers

Note that you'll always perform actions first, then unfriendly creatures and, finally, friendly ones.

Performing Actions

Each action you perform during a turn reduces your available move points by the move cost of such action. Your turn will be over once you don't have any move points left. Any ongoing action will be paused and queued for the next turn.

Queued actions will be subtracted from the available move points of the next turn. Example: your base move cost is 100, and you perform an action that costs 110 points; you won't be able to finish the action this turn, so it will be queued to be finished the next turn, and the base move cost for that turn will be reduced by 10 (the extra moves that didn't fit in the previous turn).

Actions that take longer than one turn (refuelling vehicles, crafting, reading, sleeping, etc) can be interrupted at any time by pressing the wait (5 or .) key.

Running cost

When moving around (normally you walk, press " to really start running, which consumes stamina as well) you consume as many move points as the movement cost of the current terrain type to which you move. You can check that cost in-game by examining or far-looking at the tile you want to move to.

Display

Spd 100  115

The speed will be green if above 100 and red if below that. Besides the speed value you'll find the move cost of your last action.

Calculation

This value is calculated each turn, where the following bonus and penalties are applied:

Penalties

• Weight: when the weight carried is 25% higher than the weight capacity
• Pain: when pain is higher than the potency of the consumed painkillers. This penalty is more severe if the difference is higher than 60
• Painkillers: when the potency of the consumed painkillers is 10 or higher than the pain. More severe if it's higher than 30.
• Morale: when morale bonus (morale level / 25) is below -10
• Radiation: when radiation is 20 or higher. 40 or higher increases the penalty further
• Thirst: when thirst is above 40
• Hunger: when hunger is above 100
• Sunlight dependent mutation: penalties relative to the current light level when not under sunlight
• Cold blood mutation: when temperature is below 60F
• Speed down artifact: 20 penalty points

Bonus

• Morale: when morale is higher than 100 there will be a bonus that can't be higher than 10.
• Stimulants: Based on the potency of all stimulants taken. It can't be higher than 40.
• Quick trait: gives a 10% bonus
• Speed up artifact: 20 bonus points

Some diseases and status effects can also affect this value (usually negatively).

Move points can't be below 25 in any case.

Stim

Default value: 0 | Min value: -200 | Max value: 250

How does it increase?

• By consuming stimulants (such as coffee, cocaine, Adderall, energy drink, etc).
• Each turn it will increase by 1 point if the current stim level is lower than 0.

How does it decrease?

• Each turn it will lower by 1 point if the current stim level is higher than 0.

Effects

Your movement points, dexterity, intelligence and perception will increase based on the combined intensity of the consumed stimulants. These effects are lowered if your stim level is already equal or greater than 30. The bonus to your movement points can't be greater than 40, in any case.

Your fatigue will be reduced when consuming stimulants, the amount depending on the item's stim intensity. Your sleepiness will also be reduced when laying down to sleep, based on the current stim level. All this will allow you to stay awake for longer periods of time. If for some reason you want to sleep under this conditions you'll need to consume items that increase your fatigue first.

NPCs will fear players with stim levels greater than 20, which will, in turn, lower their trust. NPCs can also be affected by stimulants, if consumed.

You can die because of your stim level:

• From a heart attack if your stim level is greater than 250 ("You have a sudden heart attack!").
• Of apnea if it's lower than -200 ("Your breathing stops completely.").

Pain

Default value: 0

• Can decrease stats if the pain level is too high!

How does it increase? (Not a complete list)

• By taking damage from enemies
• Walking over certain tiles such as rubble or fire
• Diseases or conditions such as infected bite wounds
• Failed implanting of bionics
• Certain weather such as acid rain
• Rapid physiological changes from mutation can be painful
• Being overburdened (can easily result from strength being lowered due to pain)

How does it decrease?

• Waiting for it to go down (Taking painkillers speeds up this process)
• Using Bionics

(Certain mutations also speed up pain loss and resistance to pain)

Painkillers

Default value: 0 | Max value: 240

How does it increase?

• By taking certain Meds or using First aid
• By drinking alcohol (stronger is better), unless you metabolize it
• Tiny amounts can be gained by smoking weed
• Traits like Chemical Imbalance and Schizophrenic can randomly increase it
• If negative, it will increase by 1 every 5 minutes

How does it decrease?

• If positive, it will decrease by 1 every 5 minutes
• Addiction to painkillers (1 per turn at 25+ intensity, otherwise 1 per (100 - 4 * intensity) turns)

Effects

Subtracted from pain in pretty much every situation where pain is involved in any way.

Kills you instantly if you get it above 240.

Decreases speed, but less so than the pain it prevents would cause.

Maximum painkiller effect

• aspirin - 15
• codeine - 49
• heroin - 92
• morphine - 62
• oxycodone - 62
• poppy painkiller - 47
• tramadol - 40

Radiation

Default value: 0

Cash

Default value: 0

Recoil

Default value: 0

Oxygen

Default value: 0

Active mission

Default value: -1

In vehicle

Default value: false

This tracks whether or not you're in a vehicle. You may notice the UI changing to reflect vehicle stats, etc: hidden stat at work!  :-)

Style selected

Default value: "null"

XP pool

Default value: 0 | Max value: 800

This is an obsolete value: in Whales' Cataclysm and early versions of DDA, XP built over time and you sent it to develop skills. Since this led to rather non-intuitive gameplay, we scrapped it and replaced with the "Focus" mechanic, which achieves similar effects whilst avoiding the "you can't learn any more" and "you need to go practice skills now, you're wasting XP" problems of the XP pool.

Bottom line: if you have this, you've got an antique version. Keep it, but consider upgrading too!

Last item

Default value: itype_id("null")

Underwater

Default value: false

Whether or not the character is presently underwater. This makes the character difficult to see for non-underwater critters, generally restricts sight, and makes oxygen an important thing.

Dodges left

Default value: 1

Generally, you can only Dodge one attack per turn. Some martial arts styles teach dodging, and can therefore grant bonus attempts to Dodge. Zui Quan is notorious for granting functionally unlimited dodges (40, actually) once you've scored a hit.

(That breaks down as dodging 5 attacks from each of the 8 surrounding tiles. If you're attacked more than 40 times in one turn without something like a shocker attack or other paralysis involved, let us know!)

Blocks left

Default value: 1

You can usually only block one attack per turn. Certain martial arts styles lend themselves to blocking, and permit additional blocks or can grant buff-effects that do. Check your character screen!

Power level

Default value: 0

Your power level is how much power you have at the moment, bionics gained from using a CBM use power

Max power level

Default value: 0

Your max power level defines how much power for bionics you can store at the moment